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Jorge Quiroga is an award-winning general assignment reporter for WCVB Channel 5 in Boston.

Quiroga has been a reporter for NewsCenter 5 since 1977. During his tenure at WCVB, he has covered every major national and local story of importance to New Englanders -- from the Blizzard of '78, the Claus von Bulow trial (the then crime if the century), the King Arthur's Massacre, September 11 attack on America, the Sandy Hook School Massacre to the Marathon Bombings.

Quiroga joined WCVB in 1974 as the first producer/host of Aqui, a Hispanic public affairs program he created. He continued as host of Aqui until early 1985. Throughout his career, he's received many prestigious broadcasting awards and honors, including the Latin National Pride Award from Latin Pride Magazine, the Ohio State Award for Aqui, a New England Emmy Award for the news series, ”Hard Crime: No Time,” and a Gabriel Award for the investigative report ”Reading, Writing, and Reality.” Quiroga also received awards from Associated Press and National Headliners, as well as a RTNDA regional award for feature reporting.

Prior to joining WCVB, Quiroga was an elementary school teacher in the Boston public schools. Earlier, he worked at WBZ-TV in Boston as an actor and writer for Que Pasa, a program for Boston’s Spanish-speaking children.

Earlier in his career, Quiroga was awarded Harvard University’s prestigious Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s School of Government. He spent a semester at the center researching and writing. His discussion paper, “Hispanic Voices: Is the Press Listening,” was published by the center and the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy.

Quiroga was born in Bogota, Colombia. He graduated from Boston’s Emerson College in 1972 and received a master’s degree in human development and mass media from Harvard University in 1974. Quiroga and his wife Barbara, have two sons, Gustavo and Alejandro.

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